And now for some news that should surprise no one: ABC is expected to announce tomorrow that it has picked up a reboot of the camptastic '80s thriller V and that Lost heroine Elizabeth Mitchell is a full-time castmember.

Translation: She will not be returning to Lost as a series regular.

However, before you go declaring Juliet DOA from last week's detonated hydrogen bomb, I should point out that this piece of scoop comes with a big but attached: Mitchell's Lost days are not done. Multiple sources confirm that the actress is expected to appear in an unspecified number of episodes next season, so it's entirely possible Juliet survived Jughead and her absence will be explained in another way. (Check out Doc Jensen's column this Wednesday for a comprehensive Juliet theorypalooza.)

Update: 14:00

At today's ABC Upfront Presentation they ABC Panel had this to say. "Very grateful to producers of Lost to let Elizabeth Mitchell film V pilot but "I think you will see her on Lost."

Here are the latest details about Elizabeth Mitchell and her character Juliet and if we will see her again. To be honest I think the writers left it open to see how well her new show V does, but here is Ausiello's take:

Update: 16:00

5:38 a.m.: Someone asks McPherson more about Elizabeth Mitchell, and he says, "She's a fantastic actress and we're thrilled to be able to have her do both [Lost and V]...You'll see her on Lost, but V is her next piece."

Update 20.10.2009

Damon Talks About Kate and Juliet for Season 6

On a show called GEEK TIME hosted by Jon Hein(Jump the Shark author), on HOWARD101 on SIRIUS RADIO, Jon asked Damon Lindleoff about Kate and Juliet not being as "hard" or "badass" as they used to be, Damon said "If you like those two characters as badass, then you'll probably like the last season of the show." I don't know if that's worthy of news. I think it aired Aug. 17 but I'm not sure.

Quelle: EW, DarkUFO

Claire

Question: I miss Claire on Lost. Emilie de Ravin is such a great actress. Will she be back for all of next season? –Kelly

Ausiello: Yes! After sitting out last season, de Ravin will return as a full-time series regular for Lost’s sixth and final season, Team Darlton confirms. “Damon and I are very excited to bring Claire back to the show,” says Carlton Cuse, “and even more excited for people to experience just how she will return.” And even more exciting that that? Experiencing Doc Jensen’s theory on how she’ll return. Take it away, DJ:

“Any scenario that brings Claire back to Lost must address the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance at the end of season 4, in which many of us were led to believe that she was as dead — or rather, undead — as the Ghost Christian that’s been haunting The Island since season 1. So here’s one thought: Juliet changed time in the season finale by detonating Jughead, and season 6 will tell the story of the new timeline, one in which Claire is alive. Another thought: In light of the revelation that John Locke was actually a supernatural impostor for half of season 5, perhaps in season 6, we’ll get a storyline in which Claire just emerges out of the jungle, with no memory of what happened to her — just like season 1 — and we and the castaways will be left to wonder: Is this the real Claire or another impostor infiltrating them a la Locke? Heck, maybe that’s going to be the major idea of next season: Who’s really alive and who’s really (un)dead? It really will be the fabled zombie season of Lost!” Thanks a million, Doc!

You recently took a trip to Hawaii to shoot Lost. How was it being back?
It was really nice to be back. It was very quick, and it was a lot of fun to see everyone, to be back on the set, and to see the island, even if it was just for a few hours.

Were you surprised to hear that Boone would be back on the show?
Initially, yes, I was surprised. And then I was thrilled and grateful to Damon [Lindelof], and I think it’s neat that they have a lot of people going back. It’s going to be a really powerful thing for the story. And it was very strange putting on wardrobe stuff that I’d worn literally five years ago.

Is there anything at all you can tell us about what to expect?
It is so secretive. I wouldn’t want to say something that jeopardizes in any way, shape, or form the secrecy and integrity of what they’re trying to keep off-the-radar. I think Damon would come after me with a machete.

Are you excited? Depressed? Terrified of what awaits our beloved castaways after that insane Season 5 finale?

Last week you sent me loads of questions for executive producer Damon Lindelof, and he was happy to answer them when we met up at the Austin Film Festival. Read on for Lindelof's thoughts on the last episode, returning characters, "the numbers" and so much more.

Hey All,
As some of you know by now I had an opportunity to meet with Damon Lindelof today during a Comic Book event for his Ultimate Hulk v Wolverine Comic Book.

There was a Q&A Session followed by an autograph session. None of the Q&A portions had anything too spoilery and I will post a report with videos of the event later today. However, I wanted to share my few minutes with him during the autograph session.

You never know when it's coming. When it does, you have all the answers you were seeking. Such was the case in Hollywood at Paramount's DVD launch party for 'Star Trek,' which Lindelof produced with his old 'Lost' friend J.J. Abrams.

With “Lost,” because you knew what (executive producers) Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] were going to be doing, as the final season was playing out, were there moments of real excitement and joy, as you learned what was going to happen?

He’s been shot, repeatedly beaten to bloody hell, circled by a hungry shark, chased by a Smoke Monster, electrocuted and locked in a polar-bear cage with only decades-old fish biscuits for sustenance. But James “Sawyer” Ford’s greatest adversary has long been Josh Holloway, who decreed early on that his wily hillbilly deserved to die as karmic penance for years spent conning the innocent.

But with just four months left of filming on the final season of Lost, the 40-year-old actor has had a change of heart. He’s lobbying for a stay of execution. “After six years, I love this character—he’s a living, breathing part of me,” says Holloway. “And I think he deserves a second chance to rectify some things he’s done. It would be a shame if he were not given that opportunity. I’d feel cheated.” [...]

And now for some news that should surprise no one: ABC is expected to announce tomorrow that it has picked up a reboot of the camptastic '80s thriller V and that Lost heroine Elizabeth Mitchell is a full-time castmember.

Translation: She will not be returning to Lost as a series regular.

However, before you go declaring Juliet DOA from last week's detonated hydrogen bomb, I should point out that this piece of scoop comes with a big but attached: Mitchell's Lost days are not done. Multiple sources confirm that the actress is expected to appear in an unspecified number of episodes next season, so it's entirely possible Juliet survived Jughead and her absence will be explained in another way. (Check out Doc Jensen's column this Wednesday for a comprehensive Juliet theorypalooza.)

Update: 14:00

At today's ABC Upfront Presentation they ABC Panel had this to say. "Very grateful to producers of Lost to let Elizabeth Mitchell film V pilot but "I think you will see her on Lost."

Here are the latest details about Elizabeth Mitchell and her character Juliet and if we will see her again. To be honest I think the writers left it open to see how well her new show V does, but here is Ausiello's take:

Update: 16:00

5:38 a.m.: Someone asks McPherson more about Elizabeth Mitchell, and he says, "She's a fantastic actress and we're thrilled to be able to have her do both [Lost and V]...You'll see her on Lost, but V is her next piece."

...Another critical hit, Lost, wraps up its season with a two-hour show on Wednesday. But unlike House,Lost decided to go ahead with its Michigan connection without any input from the school — a move that at first was a tad unsettling for Doyle, the film office chief.

She found out about it while watching the show.

"I was sitting in the living room with my husband and said 'Oh my goodness!' I won't quote exactly what I said. (It was) more colorful than that," she said, laughing.

The university talked about it, but opted against reaching out to the Lost producers to discuss the use of the name.

According to an "orientation film" played during a past Lost episode, Dharma is described as being the brainchild of the DeGroots, who "imagined a large-scale communal research compound where scientists and freethinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology" and other disciplines.

During this season, viewers finally are getting a better idea of how Dharma-types lived and worked on the island setting of the show, which through its time-travel trippiness sent its main characters 30 years into the past.

With Dharma at the forefront of the current season, the Michigan references have been coming at a greater frequency, with a Dharma resident in a recent episode threatening to "call Ann Arbor" to settle a dispute.

Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof stress that the decision to base the Dharma folks at a 1970s-era U of M should be viewed as a compliment. After all, Cuse said, they chose the school because of its reputation as "a real center of intellectuality."

"There was an incredibly vital university academic community, and we just felt like acknowledging that by making the characters from there was just kind of cool and very sort of appropriate for the time," he said.

Cuse and Lindelof say to expect the Dharma-Michigan connection to play a significant role as the show heads into next season, its sixth and final one.

Question: I miss Claire on Lost. Emilie de Ravin is such a great actress. Will she be back for all of next season? –Kelly

Ausiello: Yes! After sitting out last season, de Ravin will return as a full-time series regular for Lost’s sixth and final season, Team Darlton confirms. “Damon and I are very excited to bring Claire back to the show,” says Carlton Cuse, “and even more excited for people to experience just how she will return.” And even more exciting that that? Experiencing Doc Jensen’s theory on how she’ll return. Take it away, DJ:

“Any scenario that brings Claire back to Lost must address the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance at the end of season 4, in which many of us were led to believe that she was as dead — or rather, undead — as the Ghost Christian that’s been haunting The Island since season 1. So here’s one thought: Juliet changed time in the season finale by detonating Jughead, and season 6 will tell the story of the new timeline, one in which Claire is alive. Another thought: In light of the revelation that John Locke was actually a supernatural impostor for half of season 5, perhaps in season 6, we’ll get a storyline in which Claire just emerges out of the jungle, with no memory of what happened to her — just like season 1 — and we and the castaways will be left to wonder: Is this the real Claire or another impostor infiltrating them a la Locke? Heck, maybe that’s going to be the major idea of next season: Who’s really alive and who’s really (un)dead? It really will be the fabled zombie season of Lost!” Thanks a million, Doc!

I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Mitchell and can't wait for her to go back to Lost. Do you know when V's 13 episodes will finish shooting? Might Elizabeth be back only for the second half of Lost's final season? — Carry
MATT: Mitchell's V-Lost conflict is not one of just time but space, seeing as V shoots in Vancouver, 6 1/2 hours from Hawaii. That said, V starts production in early August, while Lost doesn't start up again until the end of that month. And now that we know that Lost's final season has been extended to be 18 hours, and there's a slightly better chance that Juliet will spend some QT with her Romeo, Sawyer.

Lost's Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert) will finally be a series regular next season. "I'm moving my whole family to Hawaii next week," Nestor tells me. "This whole time I've been flying back and forth, but now I'll be living on the island with the others. They tell me I'll be in 16 of the 18 episodes." Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof say his backstory will take a significant time to reveal. Adds the actor: "Obviously Richard doesn't age, so I'm most curious to know how old he is and if he's in fact pulling the strings."

Big news about island-castaway show Lost is breaking over at Comic Con. One of our all time favorites is heading back to the island! Details, and major spoilers, after the jump.

Lost news turned up in an unexpected place this afternoon, at the panel and screening of the CW's new teen vampire soap the Vampire Diaries. Ian Somerhalder, best known as the late great Boone from Lost, plays brooding vampire Damon in the new CW show, and was asked by panel moderator Lynette Rice what being cast on this show would mean for him and Lost, and whether he would be returning for the show's last season.

We were actually talking about it today and... Boone will be coming back to Lost.

Somerhalder offered no other details, but this begs the question of exactly which other season-one characters will be returning to the island for Lost's final season. All that's certain is that Somerhalder is going to need that sun-protection ring his vampire character uses in Vampire Diaries when he gets back to the island.

Here is another small snippet from the filming that took place late last week at the 4-Toed Statue set.

This is just a little bit more about the scene of UnLocke coming out of the statue with Ben and then beating up Richard.

Thanks to Lostie4Life for the details.

Locke walks straight over to Richard, says something like its good to see you haven't aged (or changed) or it's good to see you are still here (as I said it was hard to hear). Then he kneed him in the stomach and as Richard is bent over UnLocke says to the crowd I'm very disappointed in you guys.

Last week we received a tip on a potential location for filming and our source asked us to keep it quite, but it seems like it is no longer a secret.

DocArzt it seems via Ryan in Hawaii or perhaps being in Hawaii himself has grabbed a pic of some of the cast members chairs in an airport baggage claim.

Yup, the LOST Cast and crew are setting up shop at Honolulu Airport to film some airport scenes and so it does seem like we will get the potential reset or Alternate Timeline story of the Losties arriving LAX!!

As you can see at least Naveen Andrews, Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly if not more will be on set.

Here is the pic and we hope to have more details from the set later today and the rest of the week stay tuned!

Whoever took the pic. Thanks!

Thanks to Glen for the heads up on this other photo from bathala who is also on the set.

Looks like things pick up immediately after Juliet hits the bomb because the construction site looks like the Swan after it got sucked in. Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Jin were there. Saw Sawyer upset over Juliet's actions and runs toward the hole which is now stuffed with all the metal from the site. Also saw them and some stunt doubles clumb out of the hole using vines/rope.

Didn't see them filming, but saw Hurley and Sayid around set. Sayid's Dharma uniform was covered in a lot of blood so it looks like he's still hurt from last season.

Very cool to see :)

Indeed, expected on the set were Matthew Fox (Jack), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Josh Holloway (Sawyer) and Naveen Andrews (Sayid). But the first hardworking actor sighted was none other than Daniel Roebuck, who played the hapless (and previously detonated) Dr. Leslie Arzt.

One of the guys at the airport set has told us that this is NOT a Flashback or dream sequence.

Update: 13:00 Looks like Ausiello screwed up and this is in fact for Episode 6.03.

Want to hazard a guess at the title?

According to Ausiello from EW it seems like we will get some Kate Centric action this season in Episode 6x06. Of course, the Kate episodes always seem to be the least liked episodes among fans, so it will be interesting to see how this episode holds up against other episodes.

Here is the full post from Ausiello:

Question: Lost scoop?! —Jarrod
Ausiello: Grab your season 6 scorecards and in the box next to episode 6 write, “Kate-centric.”

- A weird staircase that they were still building
- An archway that I have never seen before on the show
- Some old pilars with symbols on it.
- Some new pillars which i have never seen on the show before, I am assuming these new things including the staircase and the archway, have something to do with the Temple that we haven't seen yet, or maybe the 4 toed statue.
- The pillar that Locke's dad was tied to when Ben wanted Locke to kill him in season 3, i believe the episode was called The Brig.
- The well that Locke went down during the episode This Place is Death (season 5), which lead him to the frozen donkey wheel.
- The Hatch Door.
- The Submarine.
- Plane windows for either 815 or Ajira 316.

UPDATE: Carmel confirmed the Jughead tower is up again. Two weeks ago when I was there I did not see it!

Hey All,
Here is the latest report from a fan that is in Hawaii, took a LOST tour and seems to have heard some potential filming updates.

Thanks to Carmel for the following details:

Just wanted to let you know that I did the 5 hrs tour and when we went to the location of the Dharma submarine dock, our guide was surprised they stretched it open. he was on the same tour in the morning and the dock was folded. he was positive it meant that the LOST crew will be filming at the dock this very week.

From the evidence that's been gathering here, the new season's new way of story telling happens somehow on all the sets we've ever known - there will still be showing Dharma, Jacob incident, LAX in the past, and Ryan (from Hawaii) said he heard many of the locations around the island are being set up again. We even saw that the Jughead instalment remained and our guide again thought it means it'll be used again. What do you think?

Thanks to one of our guys in the know, "Chinese Chicken" who has provided this brief but spoilery set report. This pretty much confirms a lot of what we've been hearing up to now.

Hey mate, got a friend who was lucky enough to play an extra for some recent Lost filming. My friend for obvious reasons couldn't say anything direct, but I can pass some onto you and your site. My mate was on an inflight airplane set!. Buddy has never seen the show before, so tried to get as much as I could based on descriptions (and my guesses).

The plane resembles flight 815 and get this mate, on it were Jack, Kate (in cuffs) and with some guy (the marshall? unconfirmed), Sayid, flight attendant lady (Cindy? I think he means), and CHARLIE!!!! Could have been more but that's all my friend could describe. Everyone was in precrash clothing!. Can't say what happened except it looks like Charlie has accident (overdoses?) in the loo. Reset? Alt-Timeline who knows LOL!

UPDATE: Thanks to Ryan from Hawaii for the update that it seems like Kate was the driver of the cab and this new set pic.

UPDATE: Thanks to TV Overmind for the following details that "Jenny" is actually actress Jenni Blong from True Blood. I have added an image of her below.

Hey All,
The LOST crew and cast were at it again this week and the scene being filmed seems to be a continuation of the Kate Taxi Cab Scene from the airport.

We had reports of Emilie De Ravin on the Airport set and well it seems like her character Claire has decided to share a cab with Kate.

The big questions are of course WHY and do they remember or know each other!?

Thanks to our friend Ryan in Hawaii who posted a new set report from a fan named Carrie who was able to watch filming with both Kate and Claire reaching the home of what seems like the future parents of Aaron in LA!!

There are some key spoilers here so do NOT read unless you want to know:

The woman (who was called Jenny on set) answers the door and this is what Carrie witnessed:

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” she says. “I really wanted this. But my husband… I just can’t have the baby right now.”

There’s anguish. And awkwardness. They’re not invited inside. But after a few more words are exchanged, it’s Claire’s turn to cry out. She cringes, and bends over, apparently and suddenly going into labor.

- Flight 815 is reconstruced
- Jack & Cindy (The stewardess) are talking about drinks.
- Rose is there too, waiting for Bernard.
- Turbulences occur, but this time nothing happens and Flight 815 continues flying.
- Bernard appears and jokes about how he needs a change of clothes.
- Charlie seems sick and Cindy (the stewardess) rushes to him. He call's out for a doctor.
- The Plane lands.
- Charlie is led out of the plane first.
- Hurley get's out of the plane and is recognised by Dr.Arzt as that "Chicken Shack"-Guy. He asks him to "say his line".
- Sawyer watches the conversation between Arzt and Hurley
- Boone and Locke exchange some words.
- Boone is upset for not getting seats in First Class.
- Locke is put in his wheelchair
- Jack freaks out at the information because his father's funeral "is in 2 hours".
- Something happened to Christian's coffin.
- Jin & Sun are talking and Jin act's 'like a jerk' again.
- Jin only speaks korean.
- Kate is handcuffed and walks with the Marshall.
- Kate arranges to go to the bathroom. She manages to escape.
- While running Kate meets Hurley outside and say's "Hey."
- Kate get's into a cab, point's a gun to the drivers'S head.
- Claire is sitting in the same cab.
- A different shot shows Kate driving the cab and Claire entering it.
- The Marshall run's after the cab.
- The big house where Hurley used to live appears. Claire and Kate get out of a cab and knock.
- A unknown woman opens the door and starts screaming. She say's she can't adopt Claire's Baby becauso of her husband. It's the woman which Richard Malkin recommended back then in Season 1.
- After a few words Claire starts screaming and yelling.
- Claire get's into labour.
- Kate say's "Call a doctor"